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BOP Regional Council Geospatial Services Michele Hosking & Dave Withington. Agenda. We can help Local Government datasets What How to get them Your data Basic skills of a geospatial professional Dataset run through. Provide datasets Provide advice (within reason)
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BOP Regional Council Geospatial ServicesMichele Hosking & Dave Withington
Agenda • We can help • Local Government datasets • What • How to get them • Your data • Basic skills of a geospatial professional • Dataset run through
Provide datasets • Provide advice (within reason) • Put you in contact with our colleagues in other councils • Unable to provide analysis • Large format printing at a cost
Local Govt datasets • Wide range of data for many different purposes • Most can be provided free of charge • Some have restrictions on them
Datasets available from local govt • Catchments • Contours • District plan zones • Land features • Vegetation • Soils • Etc…
Accessing our datasets At the moment: • Send an email to:GeoSpatial.JobRequests@boprc.govt.nz • Sign a data licence agreement Planned: Access via a easy to use website
Your data • It would be great if you want share it with us. • It could help us make more informed decisions.
Basic skills of a geospatial professional • Data analysis • Cartographic skills • GPS knowledge • Database management • Raster and Vector understanding • Scripting • Understanding Projections and Datums
Bay of Plenty Regional Council GIS Datasets • Data we can supply: • Data created for us • Data created by us • Data freely available • Data we can supply: • Data created by other organisations
Geology http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Our-Science/Energy-Resources/Geological-Mapping/Geological-Maps/1-250-000-QMAP/
Soils http://soils.landcareresearch.co.nz
How to get hold of our data • Please let us know: • Your area of interest (a map is good!) • What data you are after • Why you would like it • All your contact details